Hello,
I hope you're all doing well!
I'd like to ask you guys for a favour.
I have been given a synoptic project for my Network Engineer apprenticeship, which I need to complete within next few days.
Any help would be much appreciated. I've only started it this afternoon and got a bit stuck.. To be honest, I don't have enough on-job experience to complete this without throughout research.
They're asking for additional 60 servers, but not sure if they mean physical devices or VMs..
Should I include the setup of DHCP and DNS as well?
I assume I need to consider the airflow and power output for the new racks/devices?
I wonder what steps would you take in this scenario?
If anyone wouldn't mind to have a quick look and give me some clues that would be much appreciated.
Please see below the provided details. I also have 3 PDFs with the images of existing data centre layout, which unfortunately I'm unable to attach here.
Thank you so much in advance! :)
A.
Project Overview and Objectives
Your company, Magenta Inc, provides hosted IT services from its own data centres to clients over a network available 24/7 and you are the Network Engineer responsible for one of the data centres. You are required to design, configure, test and implement a connectivity network to allow for the expansion of services provided by the company into their SME client base.
You will need to:
• Design, specify and implement a hosting and connectivity network for the expansion • Expand the data center by adding 60 new servers
• Ensuring compatibility with virtualised servers. To complete this project, you will need to review all the information specified in the appendices. This will support you to deliver the key outputs and deliverables for this project detailed in the tasks.
• Background information
• Business requirements
• Key diagrams - data hall diagram, rackface layout template, main and zone schematic and Acme equipment data sheet extracts
• Test template Note: To provide evidence on network connectivity between devices within your virtual environment, you will not be required to connect them to the internet at any stage.
Appendix A - Background Information
• The business was originally built to deliver a mix of high-end and volume broad spectrum business applications, for instance, Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Our growth strategy has been to steadily expand the range of specialist services we offer to include services for human resources and credit card payments.
• Your existing data hall contains data cabinets aligned in six rows containing servers, switches, and a storage area network.
• The company is expanding the range of services it offers from your data centre and the services will be offered using virtualised servers.
• It has been estimated that the expansion will initially require 60 additional servers and that demand is expected to increase by 100% in the first two years.
• Many of the legacy services operate like traditional client-server applications, which require individual customer servers and storage. Some of the services are web enabled and accessed via a browser but others require client software to be installed on the users’ PCs. This has led to a review of strategy because there have been some issues including:
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lack of scalability to customers.
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lack of data aggregation.
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support is difficult because of too much customisation between different customers.
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performance data for the data centre is difficult to collect and analyse.
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difficult to grow revenue per server.
• Magenta Inc. has now developed a software suite of its own, which will provide a range of business applications including office and messaging, accounting and invoicing, Human Resource Management (HRM) and CRM using a SaaS model multi-tenancy architecture allowing the use of shared resources and infrastructure.
• It has been decided that, due to the mix of applications, the high levels of availability required by the customers and our relative inexperience to initially limit the virtualisation ratio to four virtual machines per server host.
• The estimated demand for services is expected to increase by 100%in the first two years
Appendix B - Acme Equipment Datasheets.
Acme Series 2016 Server Dimensions - 87.5 H x 445 W x 610 D (mm) Weight - 17kg Power supply - 230V, 550W Operating Temperature - 10C min, 35C max Operating humidity - 8 - 90% (non-condensing) Noise 39dBA Ethernet ports - 2 x Gigabit Acme 48 port non-blocking managed switch Dimensions - 43 H x 445 W x 260 D (mm) Weight - 3.5kg Power supply - 230V, 300W Operating Temperature - 0C min, 40C max Operating humidity - 10 - 90% (non-condensing) Ports - 48 x 10/100/1000 + 2 Gigabit SFP
Acme 16Gb, 24 channel Fibre Channel managed switch Dimensions - 43 H x 445 W x 260 D (mm) Weight - 4.5kg Power supply - 230V, 60W Operating Temperature - 0C min, 40C max Operating humidity - 10 - 85% (non condensing) Ports - 24 x universal (E, F, M, FL)
Acme series 3000 tape libraries Dimensions - 220 H x 445 W x 8000 D (mm) Weight - 40kg Power supply - 230V, 500W Operating Temperature - 10C min, 35C max Operating humidity - 10 - 80% (non condensing) Ports - 1 x 8Gb FC (expansion slot for second interface card)
Acme series 6000 disk arrays Dimensions - 87 H x 445 W x 560 D (mm) Weight - 13kg Power supply - 230V, 350W Operating Temperature - 10C min, 35C max Operating humidity - 20 - 80% (non-condensing) Ports - 4 x 8Gb FC, 2 x 1000Base-T Ethernet (management)
4 x Acme Integrated Services firewall routers Dimensions - 89 H x 440 W x 450 D (mm) Weight - 14kg Power supply - 230V, 650W Operating Temperature -0C min, 40C max Operating humidity - 5 - 80% (non-condensing) Ports - 3 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet WAN ports, 24 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN ports
Acme 42U, 600x1000mm cabinets. Dimensions 2050 H x 600 W x 1000 D (mm) Loading - up to 500kg static load
Task 1 Evidence:
• Design a hosting and connectivity network for an additional 60 servers. Use the below box to
Task 2 Evidence:
• Demonstrate how you might install and configure a Rack layout for cabinets with new servers. Use the below box to capture the file name and type of file that you intend to submit as evidence of completion of this task
Task 3 Evidence:
• Demonstrate virtualisation running on test network by testing the connectivity of the 4 virtual machines to the server. Use the below box to capture the file name and type of file that you intend to submit as evidence of completion of this task.
Task 4 Evidence:
Provide a:
• Updated connectivity plan for the data hall.
• Virtualisation plan for new servers.
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